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Snacks we used to love

Here's our entirely scientific rundown of the 15 most sorely missed chocolates and sweets you can no longer get for love nor money.

The Fuse

Cadbury's Fuse bar was discontinued in 2006.

The Secret

The Secret chocolate bar was discontinued in the 1990s.

The Texan

The Texan chocolate bar was withdrawn from sale in 1984 but made a brief return as a limited edition in 2005.

Toffo

Toffo assorted flavour toffee sweets were discontinued in 2005.

Cadbury's Dream

That it took so long for someone to come up with the idea of doing a white chocolate version of Dairy Milk is almost a travesty.

What is an actual travesty is that they are no longer on general sale.

Cadbury's Rumba

A delicious combination of fudge, chocolate and rum flavour, Cadbury's Rumba was a genuine 70s delicacy.

It came in two sticks, like a Twix, and was a little thicker than a Fudge bar. A grown-up taste from a bygone age.

Cadbury's SnowFlake

Despite the branding, Snow Flakes were, in fact, closer to Twirls. We always assumed they were a relatively new invention, but they've been around in some form or fashion since the 70s.

They had a white chocolate flake centre, dipped in milk chocolate. And they were delicious.

They shot to notoriety in 2000, when OK! Magazine published photos of Anthea Turner and Grant Bovey's wedding, in which the happy couple appeared to be promoting the chocolate treats.

Turner, Bovey, Cadbury's and OK! all denied it was a sponsorship deal.

For some reason they changed the name to Flake Snow in 2003. Then they were canned in 2008.

Caramac Kit Kat

Both Caramac and Kit Kat have had been available in a multitude of combinations over the years, but it wasn't until they were brought together that both reached the pinnacle of their greatness.

The classic four-finger Kit Kat wafer, smothered in a buttery caramel coating was the stuff of dreams - and sadly it was a dream from which we woke up when the limited edition run ended in 2005. It came back all too briefly in 2007.

Touch Down

Over a decade since these little bars disappeared from our shelves. only 10p too. Bargain.

Banjo

Chocolate, wafer, nuts, in a blue wrapper with yellow writing.

The red version was toasted coconut.

Flake Snow

Only the crumbliest, flakiest chocolate - but this time, with a white chocolate centre.

Heaven in a wrapper.

We won’t mention the Anthea Turner advert.

Taz

The perfect pocket money chocolate bar.

For just 10p, you could choose between a Freddo or a Taz.

Sadly, the frog won - Taz swirled off into the sunset, to be replaced with a caramel Freddo instead.

Fry’s 5 Centre Chocolate Cream

Couldn’t decide which flavour chocolate bar you liked best?

Fry’s made it easy - with a bar that contained raspberry, coffee, lime, blackcurrant and orange flavoured centres.

Sadly for fans of this bar, Fry’s stopped making them in 1992, after nearly 70 years in production.

Terry’s Pyramint

It’s been the festive tradition for generations to get a Terry’s chocolate orange in your Christmas stocking.

So you can see what the product designers at Terry’s were thinking when they created the sequel - made of mint, and triangular shaped instead of circular.

The orange still rules. Sadly the Pyramint has not been seen since the 1990s.

5-4-3-2-1

Made up of five delicious parts, the 54321 fused wafer, fondant, rice crispies and caramel smothered in thick milk chocolate.

They were sadly discontinued in 1989, but not before their advert became a bona-fide 80s classic.

It even featured a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo from Ted Rogers, host of utterly incomprehensible game show 3-2-1 with Dusty Bin.